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English Electric Co., Stafford

The Billiard and Snooker Room in the Social & Athletic Association (Social Club). This was located in a building at Stychfields, adjacent to the Lichfield Road Factory.
Many local companies encouraged ...

English Electric Co., Stafford

Pictured is a 'shop floor’ area at the English Electric Co. Lichfield Road Site in Stafford. In the centre is a large stator frame partly assembled with a view of the copper windings. The Stafford Works ...

English Electric Co., Stafford

This English Electric employee is pictured working on a large stator where he is adjusting the lead ends on the stator winding. This view was taken in an area known as '68 Bay’ which is located on the ...

English Electric Co., Stafford

This photograph was taken looking south near to the West Coast Main Line and the Queensville Bridge at the English Electric Co.'s Lichfield Road Site in Stafford.
On the right are factory buildings ...

English Electric Co., Stafford

Pictured is a 'shop floor’ area at The English Electric Co. Lichfield Road Site in Stafford. On the left are stators in various stages of assembly and on the right several rotors are being manufactured. ...

English Electric Co., Stafford

The employee in this photograph is holding a small coil in her left hand. The manufacture of small coils could involve several hundred (possibly 300/400) turns of insulated wire round a laminated core ...

English Electric Co., Stafford

This photograph is of an area of the factory known as Queensville Yard. On the left is the Works Garage, complete with war-time camouflage paint. This was later demolished and replaced by a larger garage ...

English Electric Co., Stafford

This group photograph was taken during a visit to the English Electric, Stafford Works by Sir Gilbert Rennie, the High Commissioner of Southern Rhodesia (which later became Zimbabwe) and Nyasaland (which ...

English Electric Co., Stafford

This group photograph was taken during a visit to the English Electric, Stafford Works by Vice-Admiral Edwards, Third Sea-Lord and Controller of the Navy.
Left to right: unknown; Lord Nelson (George ...

English Electric Co., Stafford

Pictured is an alternator produced by the English Electric Co. on the Lichfield Road Site in Stafford.
An alternator is an electrical generator which converts mechanical energy to electrical energy ...

English Electric Co., Stafford

This English Electric employee is pictured working on a rotor whilst it is fixed onto a lathe in the Rotor Shop. Across the top of the picture there is a line shaft with pulleys and belts which was used ...

English Electric Co., Stafford

Pictured is a ‘shop floor’ area at the English Electric Co. Lichfield Road Site in Stafford. In the centre are two typical small rotors manufactured at the site. At a later stage these rotors would ...

English Electric Co., Stafford

Pictured is the Over-speed Test Building on English Electric Co.'s Lichfield Road site in Stafford.
Over the years this facility has been used to test rotors manufactured by the English Electric Co. ...

English Electric Co., Stafford

Pictured is the Steel ‘Plate’ Yard at the English Electric Works, Stafford, in an area close to the West Coast Main Line, Queensville Bridge and the A34 Lichfield Road. The buildings in the background ...